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Journalists In Detention In Egypt

EDM number 53 in 2014-15, proposed by Jeremy Corbyn on 05/06/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Africa, International politics and government, Press and Prisons.

That this House notes the dangers encountered unjustly by journalists reporting from areas of conflict and change; expresses its alarm that since July 2013 more than 30 Al Jazeera staff have been detained in Egypt while four still remain imprisoned; further notes that Abdullah Elshamy was arrested in August 2013 and has been on hunger strike and is ill and that Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were arrested in December 2013; further notes the international support for their plight from the National Union of Journalists as well as #FreeAJStaff and spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Amnesty International and prominent international journalists; urges all governments to guarantee the safety of all journalists who play a crucial role in reporting the news as and when they see it; and further urges the Government to press the Egyptian authorities to bring about the release of all the detained journalists as a matter of the utmost urgency.

This motion has been signed by a total of 35 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jeremy Corbyn05/06/2014Islington NorthLabourProposed
John McDonnell05/06/2014Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Katy Clark09/06/2014North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins09/06/2014Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley09/06/2014Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Alan Meale09/06/2014MansfieldLabourSeconded
Hywel Williams09/06/2014ArfonPlaid CymruSigned
Andrew George09/06/2014St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Durkan09/06/2014FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
John Leech10/06/2014Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Margaret Ritchie10/06/2014South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Martin Caton10/06/2014GowerLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin10/06/2014Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Grahame Morris10/06/2014EasingtonLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner10/06/2014BolsoverLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson10/06/2014Hampstead and KilburnLabourSigned
Paul Farrelly10/06/2014Newcastle-under-LymeLabourSigned
Jim Shannon10/06/2014StrangfordDUPSigned
Nigel Dodds11/06/2014Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Michael Weir11/06/2014AngusScottish National PartySigned
Jimmy Hood11/06/2014Lanark and Hamilton EastLabourSigned
Ian Mearns11/06/2014GatesheadLabourSigned
Jonathan Edwards11/06/2014Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Ronnie Campbell11/06/2014Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd11/06/2014Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSigned
David Crausby12/06/2014Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Paul Flynn12/06/2014Newport WestLabourSigned
Ian Lavery12/06/2014WansbeckLabourSigned
Lindsay Roy12/06/2014GlenrothesLabourSigned
Mary Glindon12/06/2014North TynesideLabourSigned
Mark Williams16/06/2014CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Stunell16/06/2014Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Albert Owen16/06/2014Ynys MLabourSigned
Mike Hancock17/06/2014Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Caroline Lucas17/06/2014Brighton, PavilionGreenSigned

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